Visionary cross-cultural leader and change agent. Global executive with experience in companies from 4 to 10,000. Expert negotiator; achieved win-win results in US, Japan and Europe. Popular speaker and interviewee in Japan on Cloud, Virtualization, Database Consolidation and Data Center.

Chief Technology Officer @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Member of the Board of Directors @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Advisor @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Advisor @ From May 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Technology Consultant @ From November 1999 to Present (16 years 2 months) Advisor @ From September 2014 to December 2014 (4 months) Vice CTO @ Responsible for Datacenters, Infrastructure for Customer-Facing Services and Corporate IT. Initiated cultural change in Data Center and Corporate IT groups from "monopoly" to "service-orientation." By encouraging competition with public cloud services, changed the mindset of these teams from "cost-center" to "customer-focused." Initiated "Rakuten Infrastructure as a Service" Virtualization initiative; over 2 years virtualized 60% of production and almost 100% of development and testing infrastructures. Together with changes to the data center allocation model (to more realistically allocate TCO), saved the group an estimated US$25M/year. Spearheaded datacenter consolidation by moving 2 legacy facilities to one new-technology facility, saving an estimated US$6M/year on a cost of US$2M. Developed Rakuten's own (captive) Internet Service Provider, a direct connection to the Internet, which resulted in 70% savings on bandwidth costs while improving the response time for our customers. Initiated Database-as-a-Service and Storage-as-a-Service. STaaS provides storage that is 90% less expensive than legacy storage infrastructure, and DBaaS in particular helps smaller services take advantage of big infrastructure without incurring significant costs. Instituted internal customer satisfaction metrics for Corporate IT, improving end-user satisfaction 25% without increasing cost. Integrated post-M&A subsidiaries to corporate IT standards including SAP. Modernized corporate applications infrastructure, making SOA-based integrations available to improve reliability and speed while reducing cost. Migrated corporate email to a cloud-based infrastructure, providing 10x additional storage capacity to our employees with no increase in cost. Negotiated direct relationships with top 4 IT vendors, reducing CapEx and OpEx costs by up to 60%. Represented Rakuten's IT strategy at numerous public events and in the Japanese IT press. Established Bangalore Operations Center. From January 2011 to August 2014 (3 years 8 months) Tokyo, JapanExecutive Officer @ From July 2008 to August 2014 (6 years 2 months) SVP @ Provided marketplace data warehouse to Rakuten Ichiba marketing team. Built applications like "Ranking Ichiba" (directly generated 1-2% of sales). Participated in due diligence and post merger integration. From April 2001 to August 2014 (13 years 5 months) Board Director @ From June 2012 to June 2014 (2 years 1 month) Within 23 wards, Tokyo, JapanChief Operating Officer @ Managed Technology, Legal, Accounting and HR. Subsidiary CFO, certified financial results to parent company, corporate auditors and tax authorities. Initiated consolidated tax reporting. Established US regional cash-management facility. Through careful process management, reduced time-to-close from 13 business days to 10 business days while reducing the overtime necessary for the accounting team. Overhauled recruiting and performance review system. Initiated incentive system to encourage staff to file patents. From February 2010 to January 2011 (1 year) Chief Technology Officer @ Responsible for all technology in subsidiary, which drives 1-3% of US e-Commerce. Developed innovative new systems, including first user-interface overhaul in 7 years, contextual targeting and real time analytics. Improved system uptime to 100% for critical advertising delivery and tracking systems and to more than 99.95% for Tier 2 systems. Migrated data centers for improved uptime and reduced cost; improved corporate infrastructure while reducing costs. From February 2006 to 2011 (5 years) Greater New York City AreaBoard Director @ From April 2008 to April 2010 (2 years 1 month) Co-President @ From June 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 8 months) VP, Engineering @ Co-founder and first Engineer at innovative Prescription-writing Software-as-a-Service company. Hired the engineering team, led architecture and development of Palm-based and Web-based prescription writing software. Integrated with insurance company formulary information to verify patient coverage and with practice management software. Integrated fax services to dispatch prescriptions to pharmacies. From October 1998 to November 1999 (1 year 2 months) Director, Engineering @ PointCast was the first Internet News Service. I founded the International Engineering team; we globalized PointCast's software, built a data center in Japan, and managed the development of PointCast for Canada, Japan, China, UK and France. Developed vertical versions of PointCast (PointCast for Banking, PointCast for Government, etc). Established PointCast's Program Management function. From October 1996 to October 1998 (2 years 1 month) Development Manager @ From February 1991 to October 1996 (5 years 9 months) Software Engineer @ From February 1991 to February 1993 (2 years 1 month) Member, Technical Staff @ From September 1989 to February 1991 (1 year 6 months)

Cognitive Science @ University of Pennsylvania From 1984 to 1989 Jonathan Levine is skilled in: E-commerce, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Mobile Devices, Software Development, Start-ups, Mobile Applications, Product Management, User Experience, Web Development, IT Strategy, Agile Methodologies, Business Intelligence, Big Data